Golden Fishery

The sinking of the treasure ship "San Jose" was nothing to the British Empire Navy at the time, because they didn't know it was a treasure ship and thought it was just an ordinary troop carrier.

The battle for ocean hegemony between the British Empire and the Spanish Empire was the largest and cruelest naval war in the history of the human world. The Pacific naval battle of World War II may be more famous in the future, but the number of people involved, the damaged warships and the victims are still unknown. It is far inferior to the ocean hegemony war between the two empires.

At that time, the two sides had already killed each other. As long as it was the ship of the other party or the other party's allies, it would be destroyed, no matter what kind of troop carrier or slave ship you had. So much was destroyed in this way that the captain of the battleship responsible for sinking the San Jose did not specifically record the location of the wreck. Even at that time, they didn't come here specifically to sink the San Jose. At that time, they had other important tasks.

The San Jose was also unlucky, and Felipe V was even more unlucky. The money was his military expenses. It is said that the ship carried the main treasures plundered from the Spanish American colonies, including gold, silver, and various gems.

The reason why he has prepared so much military expenditure is not only to use it to compete with the British Empire for hegemony at sea, but also to organize a new army and recover the territory of Italy.

The naval battle between Britain and Spain lasted for hundreds of years, and the two sides continued to fight over the ownership of the Atlantic Ocean. Later, they joined the Dutch Empire. The situation was particularly chaotic. Spain's sea power was constantly challenged and gradually fell into a disadvantage.

The British-Spanish sea battle in the 16th century was a turning point. The British Empire replaced the Spanish Empire as the maritime hegemony of the Atlantic Ocean. At that time, the Atlantic Ocean was the lifeline of slave transportation and shipping. Philip V was unwilling to do so, and always wanted to wait for an opportunity for revenge. Defeat the British Empire to regain maritime supremacy in the Atlantic.

But people are not as good as heaven, he is full of ambitions, and in the end not only failed to defeat the British navy, but even because of lack of military spending. Later, when Italy was recovered, it was defeated by the Allied Forces of the Four Nations, and finally died in depression.

Throughout that era, the San José was a ship that could have made a difference in the battle of the era, had it returned to Spain safely. Perhaps the world pattern will be rewritten. At least Felipe V can successfully organize the army to recover Italy, and then control the Mediterranean. The accumulation of strength may really hit the British Empire and curb the rise of the empire on which the sun never sets.

Felipe V knew the importance of this ship's treasure. Therefore, in order to deceive others, he did not use conventional treasure ships for transportation, nor did he organize a large-scale fleet to escort. Because the hegemony of the Atlantic Ocean was in the hands of the British Navy at that time, even if he organized a large-scale fleet escort, it would only be a target for the British Navy.

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. After the San Jose entered the Caribbean Sea, it finally encountered the British Empire Navy.

There are more than one Spanish navy elite on board. In the end, only a few people escaped, and these people did not return to Spain, because at that time, losing a huge treasure was a serious crime of beheading, which would implicate the whole family. As a result, these people fled for their lives, and the news of the sinking of the San Jose was thus covered up.

Afterwards, although the news of the sinking of the San Jose was widely spread, the British Navy did not record the specific location of the sinking of the San Jose at that time. The vast ocean cannot be marked, so in the end no one can find this treasure ship that is said to be priceless.

Qin Shiou recalled the information about the San Jose, and asked Little Black, "Did you really find the location of this ship? For centuries, countless people have not found it. How did you find it?"

Little Black smiled slightly, and said: "My luck is relatively good. At the beginning of the year, I received a logbook, which was a ship named 'Strong as a Reef'. I conducted research based on the information in it, and then you guessed it What did you find?"

"Is this the warship that sank the San Jose?" Qin Shiou asked strangely. It may not be a bit of a coincidence, because the identity of the warship that sank the USS San Jose could not be determined at the beginning, which led to the complete inability to check the location of the sunken ship.

At that time, the naval battles were very chaotic. The navies of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal often fought in melee. Not only did the navy fight with the navy, but the navy also liked to attack civilian ships and merchant ships. Some civilian ships and merchant ships would also disguise themselves as Navy ships or pirate ships, then attack each other.

After decades of fighting, several maritime overlords found that this was not possible, and that it would hurt their own grassroots economies if the scuffle continued. So they negotiated, and they were not allowed to attack civilian and commercial ships in the future. This is the Four Nations Maritime Convention.

But as we all know, the establishment of the contract between countries is used to break it. The navies of the four countries do not abide by the agreement at all. Should they attack civilian ships or attack civilian ships, should they rob merchant ships or rob merchant ships? In order to avoid being caught, they began to make false accounts. After attacking such a ship, they refused to admit it and did not record it in the captain's logbook and battle log.

Little Black nodded and said: "Yes, according to my research, this is the case. Later, in this logbook, I found the year the San Jose was sunk, that is, the ship's travel route in 2019. It was finally determined , the place where they sank the San Jose was not far from the Cayman Islands, because the Sturdy as a Reef was going to resupply at that time, they came across the San Jose, thought it was a Spanish troop carrier, and shot it down sinking."

"Sinking the San Jose, they worried that there were Spanish naval ships behind them, and they had no more supplies, so they quickly slipped away. This is why they didn't leave a specific record of the location of the naval battle!"

Qin Shiou rubbed the back of his head and felt that Little Blake was also a talent, and he was able to find out so much information by following the clues. He couldn't help but praised: "It's their loss that you don't work for the intelligence five tigers, and it's also a loss to your talent. waste."

The Intelligence Five is a collective term referring to Canada's five major intelligence-gathering agencies, namely the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Armed Forces and Defence, National Security Intelligence Agency, Royal Mounted Police and Communications Security Agency. These five agencies are responsible for collecting signals intelligence and some human intelligence for Canada for decision-making, maintaining national security, and military operations. The elites inside are good at intelligence analysis, which is why Qin Shiou said so.

Little Blake took out a chart of the Caribbean Sea that he carried with him, in which a red five-pointed star was drawn in the southwest position, and he said firmly: "This is the approximate location of the San Jose, you find a way to contact Billy Cha For a moment, I think, we are really going to become rich and powerful!" (To be continued.)

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